Greenland's Strategic Role In The War Expands
The article traces Greenland's history from Norse settlement to Danish sovereignty and notes its rising strategic importance in wartime. It covers population figures, geographic features, and key settlements like Godhavn and Godthaab, highlighting its ice cap and coastal habitability.
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Greenland
Denmark
Iceland
Eric the Red
Gunnbjorn
Lief Ericson
Norway
Faroes
Hans Egede
Europe
Angmagsalik
Australia
British Newfoundland
New York City
Ellesmere
Canadian St. Lawrence
Koch
North Greenland
Godhavn
Disco Island
South Greenland
Godthaab
Check Aliens and Population Data Under Government Review
The U S justice department began reviewing records of nearly 5 million aliens to estimate deportation risk for illegal entry or other violations. The process aims to build a master file enabling rapid data on foreign populations and will take about two months as it completes the final review of registration questionnaires from non diplomatic aliens and families. California reports 19,471,000 orange trees. Florida 13,135,000. Arizona and Texas 2,032,000.
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United States
United States Justice Department
Department
California
Florida
Arizona
Texas
Word of an Englishman and English time
The Montreal Star extols British integrity in business and personal pledges. It argues an Englishman keeps his word beyond any bond, praising trade marks like Made in England and Sheffield steel as symbols of honest workmanship. It links national character to Britain’s global standing and the Abbey at Westminster as a symbol of inviolable truth.
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England
Sheffield
Birmingham
Leeds
Glasgow
Britain
Commonwealth
Westminster
Eternal
Tennyson
Browning
Shakespeare
Burns
Montreal Star
Ice box flowers bloom in Toronto factory boom
A new Canadian industry has emerged in Toronto making perfumed ice box flowers. Started six years ago in a private home, the plant now employs about one hundred workers in a large factory. The petals use tushia tree pith from Formosa to imitate real blossoms.
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Toronto
Bureau of Statistics
Canada
British Empire
Formosa
China
Snow to rain conversion seen in watershed data
The report notes that on average ten inches of snow equal one inch of rain in water content, a key ratio used in hydrology to convert snowfall depth to expected rainfall.
Eastman Kodak Reveals New Rare-Earth Optical Glass Advance
Eastman Kodak announces a radical glass for lenses made without silica using tantalum tungsten and lanthanum. The material promises higher light bending reducing curvature and enhancing aerial lens definition, with tests showing improved performance while national defense uses may delay general release. A Nazi plane was shot down on the Isle of Wight in an air battle, its fuselage landing near a well.
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Eastman Kodak Company
Eastman-Kodak National Defense
Jena
Germany
Isle of Wight
Measser schmitt aircraft shot down in southeast town
A yellow cowling from a Measser schmitt wreck lies in a southeast English town offering shelter to an Alsatian dog.
Morale as Weapon in Total War Cited by Canadian Minister
The Ottawa Citizen notes that morale, not money, secures victory as Canada fights an enemy seeking to break resolve. It highlights British civic efforts to boost morale through public campaigns, fire-fighting efficiency, and worker leadership with the Oxford Group's Dr. Frank Buchanan praised for moral leadership driving national resilience.
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National Defence
Canada
United Kingdom
Wales
Great Britain
Oxford Group
Frank Buchanan
Ottawa Citizen
Canadian labor strikes rise in 1940 with heavy worker loss
The labor department reports 168 strikes in 1940 involving 60,169 workers and 266,318 time loss days, up from 122 disputes in 1939 affecting 41,308 workers and 224,588 days. The annual review highlights increased industrial disruption in Canada.
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Canada
Labor Department
Cross Stitch Pattern 6950 for Summer Linens
An 8 to the inch cross stitch pattern features fruit motifs and gingham effects. Pattern 6950 includes a 17 by 17 inch transfer motif, four 2 inch and four 24% inch motifs, materials list, stitch illustrations, and color schemes. Send 20 cents in coins to Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue E., Winnipeg, Mas, for pattern 6950. There is no Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Mas
Alice Brooks
Vast British Spitfire Factory Employs Many Women
A New York Times report describes a large British plant turning out Spitfires in 21 hour shifts. Women make up about 40 percent of the workforce, with wages on a piece rate up to £20 for skilled work. The factory withstood air raids, resumes production quickly, and aims to build parity with Germany in fighter output.
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Britain
Spitfire
England
Ernest Bevin
National Treasury
United States
Gary Cooper
Germany
Craig Thomson
New York Times
Talking Cockatoo Captivates BBC Audiences Despite Censorship
Ottawa Journal reports a cockatoo at The Volunteer tavern in London gave a vivid vocal display during a BBC competition but its remarks could not be broadcast. The bird, linked to the Cheshire Cheese parrot legacy, drew praise for performance yet faced censorship.
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BBC
The
Volunteer
Cockatoo
Ottawa Journal
Grammont Mayor Drinks Gyre of Goldfish Lent Rite
The mayor of Grammont Belgium drank a goblet of wine containing live goldfish to begin Lent. He swallowed the drink with the fish in one draught, followed by every alderman. A reverent crowd watched the ceremonial act.
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Grammont
Belgium
Meteor over Durban Glows Like Electric Bulb With Long Tail
A recent meteor flashing over Durban in South Africa lit up the sky and resembled an electric bulb as it streaked by, leaving a fourfold long tail visible to observers.
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Durban
South Africa
Dr. Charles H Best Appointed Director at Toronto Banting Unit
Dr. Charles H Best, collaborator with the late Sir Frederick Banting in insulin discovery, named director of the Banting Beut department of medical research at the University of Toronto. Banting died in a Newfoundland airplane crash last February. Best will remain professor of physiology and resigns his chair of physiological medicine and associate directorship of the Connaught laboratories.
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Charles H Best
Sir Frederick Banting
Sir Frederick
Banting-Beut
University of Toronto
Toronto
Frederick
Newfoundland
Best
University
Connaught Laboratories
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Chicago
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